Make Debian work better

Max begins to play Debian + VMWare on his firm computer. In the following are some userful tipps to make the system run better in a company computer enviroment.
0) How to change keyboard layout

• >su
• >dpkg-reconfigure console-data

1) How to disable the annoying Beep of Gnome concole?
The noise really bother his office mates. But more important, it brokens Max's style: being quite. Let's make it off.

• a) Click on Applications > Accessories > Terminal
• b) Now click on Edit Menu > Current Profile
• c) Click on General Tab > General > Remove check box (Terminal bell)
• d) Add "setterm -blength 0" into /etc/profile
  

2) How to set the proxy server?
Without google Max cannot work at all. Many companies allow users to access internet only throught Proxy server, not the default DCHP.

a) In order to make the apt-get work, by the way apt-get is the program in Debian to automatically update installed packages, very useful.

• >su (switch root)
• >cd (go to home)
• add "export http_proxy=${PROXY_SERVER}:${PORT}" in the file /etc/profile.
• >apt-get update

b) In order to make the internet brower works.

• 1) System>Preferences>Network proxy
• 2) Select Manual proxy configuration
• 3) USe the same proxy for all protocal
• 4) Input proxy server and port.